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The Zombie Memes of Dixie

The Zombie Memes of Dixie

Romine, Scott
Thompson, Doug

Hardcover

Series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures

General SociologyGeneral World HistoryRegional: South

ISBN10: 0820367761
ISBN13: 9780820367767
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Dec 1 2024
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clichés, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. South--for example, that it has been shaped by a warm climate; that its people are hospitable and enjoy a slower pace of life; that it is characterized by localist tendencies and possesses a distinctive sense of place.

Approaching these propositions as memes--that is, group-forming replicators--Scott Romine argues that many of them developed in defense of slavery and evolved in its aftermath to continue to form a southern group whose way of life naturalized an emergent regime of segregation.

Following the civil rights era, another set of mutations allowed the ostensible inclusion of groups heretofore excluded from the category southerner, mostly through the conceptualization of a culture projected backward into time. By attending closely to the historical formation and mutation of the things southerners have most often said that they are, we can better understand the dynamic and dialogic process of group formation in the U.S. South.

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